LoL Patch 8.8 Release Date And Downtime

League of Legends patch 8.8 will arrive on April 11. Maintenance will begin at 03:00 PT for NA, 05:00 BST for EUW, and 03:00 CET for EUNE.

LoL Patch 8.8 Balance Changes

That out of the way, let’s start with the really important bit, shall we? What you need to remember is that stuff on the PBE like this is neither guaranteed to happen, nor to be in the next patch even if it does. This is what the folks over at Riot are thinking about doing. We’ve got the numbers on what’s changing, and a general guideline on which way each champion, item, mastery, summoner spell or rune is moving.

Patch 8.8 Item Changes

Swapping between trinkets now sets your new trinket to the same % remaining cooldown as your old one rather than flat 120 second cooldown on swap.

Oracle Alteration and Oracle Lens – changed

Now available at level 1 instead of level 9.

Cooldown is 90-60 seconds based on level.

Patch 8.8 Rune Changes

Lethal Tempo – buffed

Attack speed increased to 40-110% from 30-80%.

LoL Patch 8.8 New Skins

Second most important: cosmetics. Lovely, gorgeous cosmetics. Bit more of a visual medium this, so we’ve grabbed the best videos of each skin, as well as a lovely pic or two. Some are relatively simple changes, while others are total reworks of every part of the champion outside the gameplay numbers – new VO, new animations, new particles and the rest. It’s generally defined by how much they cost, so we’ve detailed that as well.

Conqueror Varus

LoL Patch 8.8 Login Screen

Patch 8.8’s first login screen focuses on MSI 2018. You can check it out below:

That’s League of Legends patch 8.8. We’ll update as and when we get more info, or we’ll see you for League of Legends patch 8.9 in the very near future. Let us know below if there’s any vital info we missed!